PRESENTATION

BIBLIOTEQ MDULAIR is an orchestra made of some 15 analogue function generators for four hands played by polish/swiss/french duet Emma Souharce and Daniel Maszkowicz.

With its oscilloscopes, sinusoidals, and frequency sweeps, Biblioteq Mdulair is a sound installation producing all kind of waveforms, exploring vibrations, tickeling resonances, and creating breathing beats. Those primitive electronics machines bring the soundspace down to a magma of waves for a dizzying acoustactile experience.

Bringing the fundamental acoustic waveform to the front stage so it can be experienced by the body and mind, each performance has a storyline with a scenario that allows the two artists to freely improvise from one chapter to another. The public that enters this intense and fascinating laboratory for sensorial experimentations is brought down to various atmospheres from a soft stroll to an earthquake.

SYNKIE is an analogue ecosystem for video manipulation created by [ a n y m a ]. This modular video synthesiser stands as the perfect alter-ego of legendary Moog and works as a true analogue processor for the moving image. The three creators/experimenters will distributes their video waves on dozens of CTR televisions for creating a total audiovisual symbiosis.

« Like a Moog or Doepfer synth, the Synkie was developed with modularity in mind. So far, [ a n y m a ] has built modules to split and combine the sync and video signals, and modules to invert, add, subtract, mix, filter and amplify those signals. The end result of all this video processing produces an output that can look like a glitched Atari, art installation, and scrambled cable station all at the same time. »
– Brian Benchoff – Hackaday

PRESENTATION

BIBLIOTEQ MDULAIR is an orchestra made of some 15 analogue function generators for four hands played by polish/swiss/french duet Emma Souharce and Daniel Maszkowicz.

With its oscilloscopes, sinusoidals, and frequency sweeps, Biblioteq Mdulair is a sound installation producing all kind of waveforms, exploring vibrations, tickeling resonances, and creating breathing beats. Those primitive electronics machines bring the soundspace down to a magma of waves for a dizzying acoustactile experience.

Bringing the fundamental acoustic waveform to the front stage so it can be experienced by the body and mind, each performance has a storyline with a scenario that allows the two artists to freely improvise from one chapter to another. The public that enters this intense and fascinating laboratory for sensorial experimentations is brought down to various atmospheres from a soft stroll to an earthquake.

SYNKIE is an analogue ecosystem for video manipulation created by [ a n y m a ]. This modular video synthesiser stands as the perfect alter-ego of legendary Moog and works as a true analogue processor for the moving image. The three creators/experimenters will distributes their video waves on dozens of CTR televisions for creating a total audiovisual symbiosis.

« Like a Moog or Doepfer synth, the Synkie was developed with modularity in mind. So far, [ a n y m a ] has built modules to split and combine the sync and video signals, and modules to invert, add, subtract, mix, filter and amplify those signals. The end result of all this video processing produces an output that can look like a glitched Atari, art installation, and scrambled cable station all at the same time. »
– Brian Benchoff – Hackaday

Live performance by (ISRO/ ANYMA /dusjagr) Supported by ProHelvetia Swiss Arts Council

Wednesday 30 May, 22h15

VIDEOEX
Kunstraum Walcheturm
Kanonengasse 20
8004 Zürich

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with:

Yashas Shetty (electronics and indian instruments)

Maïté Colin (videobass)

Michael Egger (video mixing)

The Indian Sonic Research Organisation, Bangalore will collaborate on a sound performance with swiss artists [ a n y m a ] and Marc Dusseiller (dusjagr). The artists will perform live with electronic music toys and create visuals with the videobass invented by Michael Egger (member of anyma) who has also invented several open source visual music instruments. The award winning VIDEOBASS is a bass guitar that plays images instead of sounds, lets you choose a video clip on the strings with your left hand, and trigger it in rhythm with your right. The visual artists and musicians will work in an improvisational dialogue. This audiovisual performance promises to be more musical than cinematographic – a layering of textures that forms abstract visual poems.

For the first 4 Days we installed our Analog Visuals Labor at the Bâtiment d’art contemporain, where we exposed the Synkie and continued to work on it. For the Vernissage we performed live with Nikki Neeke.

Experimental live video piece performed by i^n, recorded live at the electronic studio, Basel, Switzerland. No editing was done. “Fugenersatz” is one of seven improvised pieces inspired by Olivier Messiaëns “quatuor pour la fin du temps”, performed in alternance with the original work (Biel, 2003). i^n is Stefan Baumann (cello&electronics), Stefan Brunner (e-bass), Andi Isler (drums), Michael Egger (live-video)

Experimental live video piece performed by i^n, recorded live at the electronic studio, Basel, Switzerland. No editing was done. “Hardcore” is one of seven improvised pieces inspired by Olivier Messiaëns “quatuor pour la fin du temps”, performed in alternance with the original work (Biel, 2003). i^n is Stefan Baumann (cello&electronics), Stefan Brunner (e-bass), Andi Isler (drums), Michael Egger (live-video)

Experimental live video piece performed by i^n, recorded live at the electronic studio, Basel, Switzerland. No editing was done. “Tuba” is one of seven improvised pieces inspired by Olivier Messiaëns “quatuor pour la fin du temps”, performed in alternance with the original work (Biel, 2003). i^n is Stefan Baumann (cello&electronics), Stefan Brunner (e-bass), Andi Isler (drums), Michael Egger (live-video)